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North Korea deploys more troops to Russia
North Korea has sent more soldiers to Russia and re-deployed several to the frontline in Kursk, Seoul鈥檚 spy agency said on Thursday.
Russia, US diplomats meet in Istanbul for embassy talks
Russian and US officials met in Istanbul on Thursday for talks on resolving embassy issues as the two countries aimed to restore ties, Russian news agencies reported.
Talks on annexed Ukrainian land non-negotiable: Russia
The Kremlin on Thursday ruled out giving back Ukrainian regions it claims to have annexed as part of a future peace deal, setting out a major red line as Russian and US officials met in Istanbul for a new round of talks aimed at normalising relations...
Trump to sell 鈥榞old card鈥� US visas for $5m
US president Donald Trump unveiled plans Tuesday to sell new 鈥榞old card鈥� residency permits for a price of $5 million each 鈥� and said Russian oligarchs may be eligible...
Rooppur plant test run to commence soon, ROSATOM DG tells CA
The test run of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant will begin soon, director general of State Corporation for Nuclear Energy Rosatom of the Russian Federation, Alexey Likhachev, said on Wednesday...
US opposes Ukraine territorial integrity in UN vote
UN members backed a resolution supporting Ukraine鈥檚 territorial integrity Monday, facing down staunch opposition from Washington which pushed its own language that declined to blame Russia for the war or mention Kyiv鈥檚 borders...
Russia鈥檚 top diplomat to visit Turkey Monday
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Turkey on Monday, which marks the third anniversary of Russia鈥檚 invasion of Ukraine, Turkish diplomatic sources said Sunday.
UK to unveil sweeping sanctions against Russia
London will unveil a significant package of sanctions against Russia on Monday, which marks three years since the start of its war with Ukraine, UK foreign secretary David Lammy said Sunday.
Russia sells famed imperial prison at auction
A notorious Russian prison complex that once housed jailed revolutionaries, toppled ministers and Soviet dissidents will be turned into a hotel, restaurants, museum and art gallery after being sold at auction on Friday, the site鈥檚 new owner said....
Walls close in on Zelensky
Outgunned Ukrainian forces have slowly lost territory to Russian troops over recent weeks. But in the capital Kyiv, the ground is shifting rapidly beneath president Volodymyr Zelensky鈥檚 feet...
Zelensky accuses Trump of living in Russian 鈥榙isinformation鈥�
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday accused Donald Trump of succumbing to Russian 鈥榙isinformation鈥�, deepening a rift between Kyiv and the new US administration...
UKRAINE WAR: Russia, US to name negotiators
Washington said Russia and the United States will name teams to negotiate a path to ending the war in Ukraine as soon as possible, as the superpowers met on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia without Kyiv or the EU.
UN expert sounds alarm on 2,000 鈥榩olitical prisoners鈥� in Russia
The first anniversary of Alexei Navalny鈥檚 death in jail is a stark reminder that Moscow is holding 鈥榤ore than 2,000 political prisoners鈥�, the UN鈥檚 expert on rights in Russia said on Monday.
Top Russia, US officials to meet in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday
Top US and Russian diplomats will meet in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for talks on resetting the countries鈥� fractured relations and possibly paving the way to ending the Ukraine war...
Russians risk reprisals to visit Navalny grave on death anniv
At least 1,500 Russians came to the grave of Alexei Navalny in Moscow Sunday, risking reprisals and braving freezing temperatures to pay their respects to the opposition leader on the first anniversary of his death in prison.
Russian army captures village in eastern Ukraine
Russia鈥檚 army on Saturday claimed to have captured a village in Ukraine鈥檚 eastern Donetsk region close to a road linking key towns as Moscow slowly eats up territory.
Trump eyes summit with Xi-Putin, shaking up world order
Donald Trump unveiled an extraordinary vision of a shake-up to the world order Thursday, eyeing a three-way summit with the Russian and Chinese leaders just a day after saying he had agreed with Vladimir Putin to start Ukraine peace talks....
Trump, Putin set to meet in Saudi Arabia on Ukraine
US president Donald Trump revealed on Wednesday he expected to meet Russian president Vladimir Putin in Saudi Arabia for Ukraine peace talks, in an extraordinary thaw in relations after a surprise phone call between the two leaders...
RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR:聽Red Cross probes fate of 50,000 missing
The Red Cross said on Thursday it was trying to find out what happened to nearly 50,000 people who have disappeared in the past three years of Russia鈥檚 war in Ukraine.
Significant part of Ukraine wants to be Russia: Kremlin
The Kremlin said Tuesday that a 鈥榮ignificant part鈥� of Ukraine 鈥榳ants to be Russia,鈥� hours after US president Donald Trump floated the idea that Ukraine 鈥榤ay be Russian someday.鈥�...
Russia, Ukraine trade strikes on energy sites
Kyiv and Moscow traded long-range attacks on each other鈥檚 energy infrastructure overnight, officials in the warring countries said Tuesday, allegedly sparking a fire at a Russian oil refinery and fresh power restrictions in Ukraine.
Kovac plots Dortmund revival
Fresh from defeat on his Borussia Dortmund debut, coach Niko Kovac was confident his struggling side -- Champions League finalists in June -- were closer to a return to form than many think...
Russia claims east Ukraine village near strategic town
Russia said on Sunday that its forces had captured the eastern Ukrainian village of Orikhovo-Vasylivka, near the strategic military hub of Chasiv Yar that Moscow is attempting to seize...
Baltic nations disconnect from Russian power grid
The three Baltic states on Saturday cut ties with Russia鈥檚 power grid to join the European Union鈥檚 network, the culmination of a years-long process that gained urgency with Moscow鈥檚 invasion of Ukraine.
Russian strikes kill three in Ukraine
Russian strikes on the Ukrainian border region of Sumy overnight killed three people who were pulled from the rubble of a two-story residential building, prosecutors said on Friday.
Russia posts strong economic growth in 2024
Russia reported strong economic growth for 2024 on Friday as record spending on the military offensive against Ukraine outweighed the impact of Western sanctions.
Kyiv captures 909 Russian troops over Kursk operation
Ukraine said on Thursday it had captured more than 900 Russian troops over six months of fighting in the western Russian Kursk region...
Russia, Ukraine exchange 300 POWs
Russia and Ukraine each said on Wednesday that 150 of their captured soldiers had been returned in the latest prisoner-of-war exchange between the two warring countries...
Russian missile kills five in east Ukraine
A Russian missile attack Tuesday on the Ukrainian city of Izyum, briefly occupied by Russia in 2022, killed five people and wounded more than four dozen others, officials said...